How do we love fellowmen as we love ourselves?

1. To Love your Fellowmen
as Yourself
Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31

2. To love your
fellowmen as
yourself
• And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor
as yourself. (Matthew 22:39, NIV)
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3. To love your fellowmen as
yourself
• The second greatest commandment assumes an
obvious fact of human nature: that human beings
naturally love and care for themselves. This
perspective is the basis for what has come to be
known as the Golden Rule. Jesus taught this in His
sermon on the mount (Matthew 5:1–2), and it
helps to explain what it means to love another as
we love ourselves: "So whatever you wish that
others would do to you, do also to them" (Matthew
7:12). (bibleref.com)

4. Does it talking about loving
only our fellow believers?
• In the context of what Jesus quoted from Leviticus 18,
“notice that loving our neighbor would include sharing with
the poor and the alien; compassion and absolute honesty
and justice in our relationships with others; impartiality; a
refusal to be a party to gossip or slander; an absence of
malice toward anyone and a refusal to bear a grudge;
taking care never to put another’s life at risk and never
taking private vengeance upon another. It is also interesting
to note that when we have an issue with anyone, we should
strive to make it right by going to him or her directly. James
calls this the ‘royal law’(James 2:8). Our Lord taught that
we should do to others as we would have them do to us
(Matthew 7:12).” (gotquestions,org)

5. To love yourself? (https://outuponthewaters.com/ )
Rest
Be Ok with
failure
Withdraw, or
be alone in a
moment
Sit at Jesus’
feet
Study,
examine and
meditate Bible
Pray to God Sleep Exercise
Have boys’
club or girl’s
club
Love yourself

6. What to do as Christian…
Be like-minded
1
Be sympathetic
2
Be loving and
lovable
3
Be
compassionate
4
Be humble
5
Be an
encourager
6
Be Christ-like
7

7. To Love your Fellowmen
as Yourself
Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31